The Glyphosate Renewal Group (GRG) has submitted a 180,000-page dossier to the European Food Safety Authority for consideration by the Rapporteur Member State (RMS) Assessment Group on Glyphosate (AGG), consisting of France, Hungary, The Netherlands, and Sweden, seeking renewal of the active substance glyphosate.
The RMS has evaluated this dossier and released a consultation version of their assessment (the draft Renewal Assessment Report: dRAR).
As part of the GRG’s transparency commitment, we provide brief summaries of different elements of the dRAR, including indications of how the GRG is intending to respond to the topics raised by the RMS, where appropriate.
During the public consultation in the period of September – November 2021 Member States, registrants and the general public have commented on the dRAR for glyphosate. An additional information request was received from EFSA on 14th March, 2022 in accordance with Article 13 (3) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012. The GRG is providing updated summary documents in the area of toxicology, ecotoxicology, environmental fate and residues, containing information pertinent to the risk assessment and building upon the transparency documents previously uploaded here.
The GRG has prepared an updated summary document detailing key areas of the toxicology risk assessment that relates specifically to EFSA’s additional information request from 14th March 2022.
Read More .The GRG has prepared an updated summary document detailing key areas of the e-fate risk assessment that relates specifically to EFSA’s additional information request from 14th March 2022.
Read More .The GRG has prepared an updated summary document detailing key areas of the residues risk assessment, that relates specifically to EFSA’s additional information request from 14th March 2022.
Read More .The GRG has prepared an updated summary document detailing key areas of the Ecotoxicological risk assessment, that relates specifically to EFSA’s additional information request from 14th March, 2022.
Read More .On 19 September, in the framework of the 16th International Congress of Toxicology 2022 (ICTXVI) in Maastricht, The Netherlands, the Glyphosate Renewal Group organised an industry symposium: Glyphosate Neurotoxicology Evaluation: Systematic Reviews of Epidemiology and Animal Studies for Risk Assessment.
Read More the industry symposium: Glyphosate Neurotoxicology EvaluationIn the 2021 dRAR for glyphosate, the RMS requested that the grass residue decline data, used to refine the level of residues anticipated on dietary items for the chronic wild mammal risk assessment, may need to be re-assessed using current kinetics analysis approaches. The GRG performed a kinetics re-analysis of the data from 22 sets of grass residue trials on which the mean DT50 value of 2.8 days is based as presented in the EFSA (2015) conclusion on glyphosate.
Read More about the GRG Position on Grass Residue Decline Data for Chronic Wild Mammal Risk AssessmentThere is considerable information originating from both the scientific literature and media about the detection of glyphosate in the foods we eat, and consequently, in urine. Unfortunately, these reports often come with little context on how the data is obtained or what the reported values mean in terms of safety.
Read More residues of glyphosate in food and dietary exposureOn 27 September, in the frame of the EUROTOX 2021 online conference, the Glyphosate Renewal Group has organised an industry symposium. During the symposium, experts discussed the Assessment Group on Glyphosate’s recently released draft Renewal Assessment Report (dRAR) endpoints and proposed classification for glyphosate in Europe.
Read More about the GRG Industry SymposiumThe GRG has prepared a position document detailing key areas of the Ecotoxicological risk assessment, that relate to the ‘Effects on Non-Target Species’ sections of the dRAR.
Read More about the effects on non-target speciesThe RMS have re-evaluated glyphosate for its potential to be an endocrine disruptor concluding glyphosate is not an endocrine disruptor through the estrogenic, androgenic, thyroid, and steroidogenic pathways.
Read More about the draft RAR conclusion that glyphsate has no endocrine disrupting propertiesOver the past 30 years glyphosate has become the most important herbicide in global agriculture. For farmers, glyphosate herbicides provide simple, flexible and cost-effective weed control.
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